#pressed against each other

[persephone-s-moon]

Alternative kissing method

#just sorta #pressed against each other #lost boys rats #the lost boys #the lost boys 1987 #the lost boys (1987) #lost boys #lost boys 1987 #tlb #tlb 1987 #lost boys fanart #the lost boys fanart #tlb fanart #david the lost boys #david lost boys #david tlb #dwayne the lost boys #dwayne tlb #dwayne lost boys #happy pride

[suiheisen]

DOGSRED Chapter 1 by Satoru Noda [English Scanlation]

Satoru Noda's new project after Golden Kamuy: an ice hockey manga. "If he wants to go wild at the ice skating rink, isn't he better off as an ice hockey player?" Disgraced figure skater Shirakawa Rou moves to Hokkaido, and meets his unhinged match in a hot-headed hockey player.

consider this a placeholder until a proper scanlation group picks it up and does magical things like redraw art and weave in sound effect translations. also if you see spelling or grammar errors... no you didn't (none of us are native english speakers so rip, we ball 💀)

(part two)

#actually please hold while I fix a spelling error lol #files for this distributed by tosh on the usual manga server #niche content for us Noda fans :')..... #he really said: yes I will be doing a hockey manga AGAIN it is the most beautiful and POWERFUL sport #and most importantly. men are willed to press their bodies against each other #honestly i still wish he had decided on adult hockey teams instead of high school hockey #he does grown men and especially old men so well.... they're powerful. they're sexy. they're unhinged. #dogsred #satoru noda #golden kamuy #manga #hockey #figure skating #long post

[thetarttfuldickhead]

Okay but like, Roy and Jamie weren’t exactly subtle about loathing each other, were they? They fought each other on the pitch and badmouthed each other on TV, none of that keep it quiet for the sake of the team shit for these extra boys, yeah? My point is, anyone who knows anything about English football knows that Roy Kent and Jamie Tartt used to hate each other, right?

So obviously, at some point, during some press conference or post game interview, someone needs to bring this fact up. Maybe it’s as early as after the 2x06 match, because Ted might well have insisted Roy and Jamie be the ones to front that, both because it was them that won that game and because he figures it’ll promote ~their bond~ or some such. Could be later too, after the headbutt/hug thing, or later still, once the pictures of Jamie and Roy’s early morning excursions start doing the rounds on social media.

Doesn’t matter much when, really, only that someone – maybe from the tabloids because they’re a vicious lot – would ask: “Roy, just weeks before you joined the Richmond coaching staff you said, and I quote, ‘Jamie Tartt is a muppet and I hope he dies of the incurable condition of being a little bitch’. Today you described him as the most important player on the field. What has changed?”

And maybe the room goes a bit quiet at that, oooh he fucking went there, and what the hell is going to happen now, but Jamie only cocks his head to the side, making a face but looking at Roy all amused like. “You said that about me? That hurts me feelings, Coach.”

And Roy rolls his eyes, exasperated but in too good a mood after the win to be really annoyed. “Yeah, well, as it turns out the condition was only mostly incurable, wasn’t it?”

And Jamie goes aaaw and the press goes um okay and it doesn’t really explain anything, only adds to the ever-evolving legend of what the fuck is up with Roy Kent and Jamie Tartt.

#i feel slightly robbed for not getting a peek at all the weird press and social media this whole insanity must have inspired #'cause by rights it must have been everywhere sports related #‘roy kent is going to coach jamie tartt? i give it one week tops before one of them is in the hospital’ #the whole headbutt/hug thing when they won against brentford #‘WHAT WAS THAT’ #‘wasn’t surprised by the headbutt but a hug???’ #the tumblr account ‘is jamie tartt and roy kent friends yet’ #countered by the hornier ‘is jamie tartt and roy kent fucking yet’ #that maybe was once called 'have jamie tartt and roy kent killed each other yet' #but they had to rebrand for obvious reasons #god help us all when the whole extracurricular training thing gets out #twitter flooded by candids #‘is kent training him or torturing him? real question’ #I WANT ALL OF IT #roy kent #jamie tartt #roy & jamie #ted lasso #my stuff

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

Am I writing a frankly ridiculous number of Merlin and Arthur “almost” hugs into my fic?

Yes. Yes I am.

What about it?

#it’s mostly them pulling each other into their chests #y’know “for protection” #Arthur: stay close Merlin it’s not safe out here #Merlin pressed against Arthur’s side and holding onto his arm to stop Arthur running off: keep your head down before we get caught #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #merthur #ao3 fanfic #merlin bbc #headcanon #i’m bad at tagging

[gollumpanties]

there're all those posts and polls going around comparing the tadpole team to the kirkwall crew and like. we still haven't asked the most obvious question:

#why would you pit two bad bitches against each other? they would have gay sex #hard-pressed tho to think of a matchup where the kirkwall companion wouldn't utterly annihilate their counterpart 🤔 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #da2 #dragon age 2 #halsin #hawke #my post

[sarcasticassian]

over the past couple of years Steve Harrington has learned that the unexpected can actually happen quite a lot but that doesn’t mean he was necessarily prepared when, on a random Sunday morning in February 1986, Chrissy Cunningham comes bursting through the door of Family Video, marches over to the counter Steve is stood behind, slams her delicate hands down rather ferociously and asks Steve ‘how did you stop caring? like about what everyone thought of you and about being popular and fitting in?’, ‘back in your senior year’ she clarifies when Steve just blinks at her for a moment

Steve carries on just staring at her whilst he tries to put together an answer, he can’t exactly say because I found out monsters were real or I actually do still kind of care what people think or I actually got some good friends for a change 

he must take a moment too long to answer because Chrissy starts talking again, ‘I just think that actually my boyfriend is probably an asshole and I think I’m only going out with him because everyone told me I should’ (and oh Steve can relate to that one) ‘and I like the cheer squad just fine but I don’t think we ever actually talk about real things and I’m worried it’s all too much and I was thinking about it last night and I really don’t care about being popular if it means being unhappy like this and then I saw you and your girlfriend in here last night and you looked so happy, you never looked like that at school and I want to be happy and I think it means I have to stop caring so much about what everyone else says, like when Nancy and you broke up and everyone was saying those nasty things about you both’ (and okay ouch Steve hadn’t known about that) ‘and you just carried on and you were friends with her and Jonathan and its like it didn’t matter’

Steve ends up saying something about having a wake up call and that it’s not actually that easy to just stop caring but once you realise there’s other stuff out there maybe it’s not so hard after all, he tells her that if she doesn’t really like Jason all that much she should definitely break up with him because it’s fairer to everyone, he notices she flinches slightly at that (is she scared of Jason?), Chrissy mumbles something about not always being able to get away from the problem and Steve sort of gets it because it’s like kids with parental issues can just understand each other so he nods along, tells her she can always come around to Family Video if things are hard and Chrissy nods, thanks him then rushes home so her parents don’t notice she wasn’t actually sick and she was just ditching church for the hell of it

two days later Robin is bounding into the store after school and unloading all the gossip of the day onto Steve ‘and you’ll never guess what, Chrissy Cunningham DUMPED Jason, like right there in the cafeteria, it was brutal but he was such a dick, Eddie Munson told him to back off though and I thought Jason was going to punch him!’, Steve nods along and smiles slightly, proud of this girl he barely knows for doing what was best for her and begrudgingly noting that Eddie Munson might be kinda decent

Chrissy manages to pull herself back from the edge enough that come March Spring Break Vecna discounts her and goes after someone else but now that she’s friendly with Steve she happens to be at Family Video when Max and Dustin come bursting in and she’s also friendly with Eddie so when it seems as though he’s caught up in some dangerous stuff she tags along to help out, she didn’t expect to be walking through an alternate dimension with Nancy Wheeler and Robin Buckley, whilst Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington have a weird, half flirting conversation behind her and she didn’t expect her heartbeat to jump like it does when Robin smiles at her and holds her hand when they both need a little comfort

it’s hellish but Chrissy comes out of it all in one piece and bonded for life to a group of weirdos and she realises just what sort of wake up call Steve had all those years ago but weirdly maybe some of it was for the best because despite being fallen royalty they’re both happier with themselves than they’ve ever been

#Chrissy thinks that last thought curled up in Robin's lap #Eddie and Steve pressed up against each other sat across from the #let Chrissy and Steve bond #chrissy cunningham #steve harrington #robin buckley #eddie munson #buckingham my beloved #robin/chrissy #steddie #stranger things #stranger things 4 #comphet Chrissy who is actually a lesbian my beloved #at some point Steve told her Robin was not his girlfriend

[oatbugs]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

#he keeps falling asleep almost on my shoulder and waking up and readjusting but i want to tell him its ok weve seen a lot #of each other ive seen your brainwaves you called me crying a few nights ago. research partner right now is a potentiality #friend is a certainty. i met a banker passionate about finance. he said his advice made the lives of others better and he likes the numbers #more than he likes anything else. on a high rise near canary wharf the view was wonderful and the people even moreso #he said i loved her but i spent 33 grand on her and i cant do this anymore. his voice cracked talking about her. he did love her. #and she talked softly she grabbed my hand she bought me a pack of Marlborough gold she told me to snap #the russian menthol cigarettes of the tortured polish man near us with my teeth i kept staring at her teeth #bright white and sharp. i couldnt find her heartbeat but i did find warmth and i did find her lips and i did feel #how she felt pressed against a wall. a pretty boy held my hand and i gave him my number. i couldnt stop smiling about her no matter #how many runways youve walked on how many collections youve designed how many students youve taught. senior lecturer teaches me how to do #very unethical things ethically over a double shot of vodka made by the half-persian with broken farsi. she talks softly #and she says her eyes are hazel but they appear a shade of red. pure gold on her hands and leather on her back and her fingers on my lips #(she talks softly sees through me she says something i cant hear but i wont forget the way she flies) she talked to my research partner #about the possibility of moving to sunny dubai with the rest of her family and my heart felt pierced. on her arm i traces a tattoo of a #knife passing through a rose. she told me she thought there was romance in severing so i kissed her some more. #he sat me down and asked me what i loved and i told him and he said no romance no person no tragedy will take that from you. #the room was filled with a collection of people in love with something that wasnt a person and i kept looking at her. #red eyes bitten jawline beautiful hands. it is 3 degrees Celsius my head is on his shoulder i miss my friends #we walked out the lecture hall with arms linked a photo of two years ago and we both said #jesus christ. i miss you all. and i miss logic metatheory lectures. im glad i get to stare at the depth of your eyes #i wish i had met you years ago. #crushposting

[002yb]

For as rough as his brother's hands can be, they're gentle with him. Even when Ace couldn't return the kindness, Luffy endured him; holding fast to clenched fists and knuckles that were split and swollen. Persistent, stubborn even after Luffy pried his hand into Ace's and grit his teeth through the ache of Ace's bruising grips. Whining because he was a crybaby and it hurt, but never pulling away. Only squeezing just as tight in playful retaliation. Smile wide as he coaxed Ace's fingers out of their vice grip to clasp their hands together - warm and soft in a way that made Ace flinch. Because while there was dirt beneath Luffy's nails, there was blood beneath his.

And in spite of that—in spite of everything—Luffy never let go of him. Whether or not Ace feels worth that love and tender devotion, Luffy holds on to him: hands clasped together as Luffy beckons him on new adventures, a reassuring squeeze whenever Ace wavers, a bruising grip when Luffy is overcome; nails cutting into Ace's skin until Ace soothes him. Lips ghosting over knuckles - swollen and split).

Rough, but gentle with Ace. Always.

#acelu #okay someone tell me why they're so soft?? #the childhood sweethearts trope has never been so sweet i'm ahhhhhhh #following an Ace lives AU -- Luffy persisting with wanting to hold ace's hand or be held by Ace in any capacity ffffffff #with Luffy pulling Ace's arms around him - back to chest and then Ace plonks his chin on top of Luffy's head and it's so cozy and sweet #but wait-- #Luffy trying to hold Ace's hand. Just scooching his own beneath Ace's in a silent demand to be held #and Ace ignores him for the sole sake of tormenting his brother dear hahaha #of course he caves though and laughs through the kisses he presses to the back of Luffy's hand -- snickering because Luffy is fun to tease #and more-- #either of them surprise grabbing each other's hand and swinging them between them as they walk omgggggggg OMGGGG #them swinging someone between them -- Chopper or Tama or xyz kiddo -- so darling ;A; #most darling?? Luffy idly poking at Ace's fingers #just them standing at the side of the ship overlooking the ocean -- where Luffy is leaning against the railing #and Ace might be looking out at something but Luffy is focused on Ace's hands and he just --reaches out. Just a pinky to brush against Ace #and it gets Ace's attention and Ace hooks their pinkies and Luffy's smile is so brilliant that Ace can't help but fluster because ;////; #ahhhhhh Ace being helpless and having to look away but his ears give him away because they're burning red with blush and he tries to #play it cool but Luffy laughs at him because he /knows/ and Ace is OTL but it's wonderful ;3;

[lesbiradshaw]

theo and liam always getting paired together in 6b during episodes where all of the other storylines focus on couples going through stuff together is so funny because when you look at it, the only episode where they really get split up is genotype, which is one of the rare episodes where scott ISN’T paired with malia (because he’s with liam) and mason isn’t with corey (because he’s with theo) aka the canon love interests. like these episodes were cutting from shit like scalia almost dying together to thiam having intimate conversations about how liam processes emotions and morey saying i love you to thiam swearing that neither of them are dying for each other 😭 just very amusing to me. theo raeken: the accidental love interest.

#like 😭 #6b eps post theo getting kidnapped go pressure test -> triggers -> werewolves of london -> genotype -> 6.19 which i barely remember -> #then wolves of war aka the finale #pressure test: mason & corey are at deatons. theo shows up at the police station w everyone & shoves liam in the bathroom to berate him for #not being worried ab his own safety enough ??? 😭 & hes pretty much attached to liams hip in the group shots #also while theo & scott are outside doing their lil body bag trick malia and liam are pressed right against the window watching both of them #& during triggers we dont see corey but mason leaves theo & liam alone . & its a major bonding ep for them…. #while scalia are also having their major bonding moment when they both almost Die #then during werewolves of london theo just shows up at the school and they end up calling scalia for help 😭 #and again genotype breaks all the couples off from each other so its mason n theo / scott n liam / malia with her dad #and during wolves of war i literally laughed out loud because it bounces around from jethan to morey to thiam all having heart to hearts #not saying it was intentional but it was very funny framing TO ME #that ao3 tag thats like ‘they are dating in secret but only one is aware’ LIEKDJENEBR #they basically made theo liam’s love interest on accident just bcuz everyone else was already paired off w someone 😭 #thiam #saw someone the other day say they just dont get how people Came Up with thiam and its like #ok if you dont ship it whatever but if you say you cant see why youre just lying 😭 look at the material

[munsonfamilyband]

Different Meeting AU Part 3 Ayo??

This part was kind of long, but it’s a lot of filler stuff so I figured I would just post it all

If you're keeping up with this, it can all be found under Different Meeting AU on my blog

——————

“Wait, lab as in Hawkins National Lab?”

“Yeah, I don’t know all the details of this part since I didn’t get looped in until the very end but Dustin knows what happened.” Steve had started at the beginning, explaining how Will had been abducted by a monster from another dimension that night in ‘83 after a little girl raised in a lab accidentally opened a gate. Unfortunately, as he had said, Steve only knew the broad strokes of what happened the first time around. He glances at Dustin, silently asking him to start filling in the details of that first year, and god bless that big brain of his, because Dustin starts talking.

“Yeah, after Will disappeared, Mike, Lucas and I snuck out to go look for him-“

“I didn’t know you did that-“

“Hush, Steve, now isn’t the time to act like my mother-“

“I would be so lucky to be Claudia-“

“Oh my god, whatever. Anyway, we snuck out and in the woods we found El, Eleven. She had no hair and was dressed in a giant yellow t-shirt with no pants or shoes, so we brought her back to Mike’s and hid her in the basement. We slowly worked information out of her, including that she had been raised in the lab, and she saw Will get taken. She’s the reason we call it the Upside Down, she saw a picture of Will and kept flipping it upside down to show where he had gone. We call the monster a Demogorgon because that’s what we were fighting in our campaign the night he got taken.” Eddie is staring at Dustin in shock, eyes flitting around to everyone else in the room to see if they’ll show he’s bluffing - no one does. At this point, Steve pipes up.

“The night they found El was also when….you know how I refuse to swim in my pool?” Eddie looks at him, eyes creasing in confusion.

“Yeah?”

“That’s because, that night, I had a small party. I was just starting to date Nancy and I wanted to impress her, so I invited her, Tommy H, Carol, and Nance’s friend Barb Holland to my place.”

“Didn’t Barb-“

“Yeah, this is what really happened to her. She had cut her hand shotgunning a beer, and Nance had gone in the pool, so I took her upstairs to get changed. Her and Barb had a fight - Barb never liked me, and I can’t blame her - so Barb stayed outside by the pool. The next day she was missing. We only found out what really happened because Jonathan had snuck into the woods behind my house to take pictures of Nancy and got one of-of us getting undressed in my room-“

“That’s why you broke his camera?”

“Yeah, that’s why. But the pictures he took showed Barb suddenly disappearing from by the pool. That’s how he and Nancy started talking in the first place, she saw Barb in one of his photos. We later found out through El that Barb died in the Upside Down version of my pool.”

“Holy shit, Stevie, no wonder you hate that pool.” Eddie pulled Steve closer, both of them needing the reassurance the other could bring in that moment. Dustin coughed gently to get their attention before he kept talking.

“Around this time, Hopper was starting to look into the lab, and then the fake body was left in the quarry. Nancy ended up finding a small gate at some point and went through it, I don’t know when that happened-“

“I do.” Steve interjected, having figured all this out from his own timeline.

“Did Nancy tell you when that happened?”

“No, but I went to her house the night before it all came to a close. I found her laying in her bed with Jonathan and all the lights were on. I figured out after everything was over, when she mentioned having been into the Upside Down and Jon helping her get out, that must have been the night she went in. That was also the night that led to the infamous movie theater graffiti and my fight with Jonathan.”

“I always meant to ask, but I didn’t want to upset you - did you do the spray paint or did someone else?” Robin spoke softly, clearly still wanting to be gentle about her question, and Steve gave her a soft smile to show his appreciation.

“Tommy did it. I’m pretty sure he had a crush on me, looking back on our interactions, and he was so mad when I told him I found Nance in bed with Jon that he took in upon himself to shame her. I was too mad when she confronted me to tell her I didn’t do it, especially because at the time I didn’t fully disagree. I also said really shitty things to Jonathan to get him to fight me because I was so mad. The whole reason I ended up at the Byers’ house that night was because I was trying to apologize to Jonathan for what I had said to him.”

“That’s how you got involved? I thought it was about Nancy?” Steve shakes his head at Dustin.

“No, I realized that Tommy and Carol were shitty people and ditched them before going to clean up the graffiti and then I went to the Byers’ to apologize. Nancy answered the door, she had a cut on her hand and the house reeked of gasoline so I worked my way inside and saw weapons all over the place. Nancy pointed a gun in my face and told me to run, I didn’t but when a monster jumped through the ceiling, I ran. I ended up going back inside and that’s how I got the bat - it was Jonathan’s but it was by the door and they were both cornered, so I grabbed it and helped them beat back the Demogorgon and light it on fire. We thought we killed it, but it ended up going to the school.”

“School? Why the school?” Eddie was sort of following, but the mention of the school throws him off. Dustin steps in with an answer though.

“The Middle School, it’s where we were. Before Nancy and Jonathan went back to the Byers everyone was at the middle school with El. I don’t know if you’ve picked up on it yet, but El has super powers and she said she could find Will in the Upside Down. But she needed a sensory depravation tank, and the only place with that much salt was the school. Mike, El, Lucas and I stayed at the school after she found him so Mrs. Byers and Hopper could go get him and Nancy and Jonathan went to distract the Demogorgon. Unfortunately the people from the lab found us - they had been searching the whole week and had found us at Mike’s before we ran for it. El ended up killing a bunch of them before the Demogorgon arrived and she ended up sending it back to the Upside Down, disappearing while she did it.”

We all thought she was dead, but it turned out that she had been hiding in the woods and Hopper found her and took her in.”

“Hang on, you guys were what, 12?”

“Yeah, but that’s besides the point. That was only year one.” Eddie blinks, taking in all the information being handed to him.

“Year one? This has happened multiple times?”

“Yeah, about once a year or so.”

“Jesus H Christ. Alright, go ahead, explain year two.” Steve speaks up this time, before Dustin can.

“I know about this time, so let me. Will spent a week in the Upside Down, which ended up giving him a permanent connection to the place and he ended up getting possessed. The kids called it the Mind Flayer, since it controlled the Upside Down and stuff. At the same time, Dustin found a weird slug thing from the Upside Down and decided to keep it as a pet, for some reason. It ended up eating his cat, because it was from a hell dimension, what else would it do-”

“It was for science, Steve!”

“Whatever, Nancy and I had a huge fight at a Halloween party and I went to apologize, which is how I got roped into helping dustin track down his demon pet. It gets kind of blurry at this point, everything was going really fast, I remember making a trail of raw meat along train tracks to the junkyard and fortifying an old school bus with Dustin, Lucas and Max, then I fought off a bunch of demodogs-”

“Demodogs?” Eddie looked to Dustin for clarification.

“Demogorgons grow like frogs, so they start as little slug things and about halfway through their growth they look like dogs, with a tail and four legs. So, demodogs.”

“Alright then, continue I guess.”

“Right, so we fight of the demodogs before the get called back to the lab by the Mind Flayer. Everyone meets up at the Byers’ house to plan and figure out what’s going on with Will. This is when we figure out that he's possessed and that the Mind Flayer has been building a series of tunnels under Hawkins. Plus, the gate at the Lab had been opening further and further in the year since it was first opened. So we all split up again, Hopper takes El to go close the gate, Mike, Jonathan, Joyce and, after I told her to go, Nancy take Will somewhere to try to get the Mind Flayer out of him, and I'm stuck babysitting.”

“How did they get it out of him?”

“It likes it cold, so they just blasted his was as much heat as possible. Kind of like an infection, I guess. You have to sweat it out. I remember the start of this next part, but not the end. I was on babysitting duty, watching Dustin, Lucas and Max, when Billy fucking Hargrove shows up. He had been after Lucas ever since he saw him and Max hanging out, racist asshole - sorry, Max.” Steve glances over at Max who just shrugs. “I told the kids to stay hidden and stepped outside to get him to leave, but of course none of the children could stay out of sight and he spotted them. Pushed right past me into the house and cornered Lucas, talking about how he's going to kill him. I, of course, got in the way and started a fight. It was pretty evenly matched, until he broke a plate over my head. After that things get pretty blurry, and I don't remember much except waking up in the back of Billy’s car with Max behind the wheel.” Max snorts.

“Yeah, you were really out of it. In order to get Billy to stop, I had to use the sedative we had used on Will. I then took Steve’s bat and nearly caved in his balls, told him to leave me and my friends alone, and then he passed out. We dragged Steve’s body to Billy’s car and drove to the pumpkin patch, which had an entrance to the tunnels. Our plan was to light them on fire to give El a distraction. Steve was pretty incoherent but the adrenaline helped him stay moving. We got a huge section lit on fire and got out of the tunnels before Steve collapsed again - Lucas drove that time, bringing us back to the Byers’ house. Thankfully Billy had run off so he wasn’t there when we got back. Hop ended up bringing Steve to the hospital that night because he wouldn’t stop puking.”

“Because I had grade 3 concussion!”

“Yeah, whatever, it was still gross. But, yeah that was year 2,” Max finished, shrugging as if to say ‘this is no big deal’.

“That’s what happened to your face in ‘84?” Eddie looked at Steve, tracing a small scar under his eye with a finger.

“Yeah, not the last time I got my face beaten during one of these though.”

“That’s not very reassuring, Steve.”

“Yeah, I know.... this part is, well, you're probably not gonna like hearing about it.”

Eddie gulped before nodding, “Alright, go ahead then.”

“This happened last summer, it ended on the fourth of July-” Steve watched the realization dawn across Eddie’s face.

“This is why you came to see me?”

“Yeah, it is. I'm not sure about all the Billy-Mind Flayer stuff, but I do know that at some point in late June, Billy got possessed by the Mind Flayer. But because the gate was closed - sort of, but we didn't find out about that until later - the Mind Flayer needed to make a body for itself. It started having Billy flay people, or at least that’s what we called it. He basically replaced them with pieces of the hive mind that could sort of melt into a flesh monster. At the same time, I’m working at Scoops Ahoy in the mall with Robin and Dustin comes home from summer camp, talking about a Russian transmission he picked up on his radio tower thing-”

“It’s called Cerebro, Steve, and I was trying to contact Suzie when I picked up the transmission.”

“Right, Cerebro, well Dustin comes into Scoops and tells me about the transmission and we start trying to decode it-” Robin holds up a hand awkwardly.

“That’s where I got involved, I'm good with languages so I helped translate but all we got was a stupid code. I don't think I would have made sense of it if Steve hadn’t figured out where the transmission was coming from though.”

“It’s not that big of a deal, Robbie-”

“Yes it is, Steve. The transmission had music in the background, and Dustin and I were too focused on the words, but Steve kept listening to the music and figured out where it was from. The music was the song you hear from an Indiana Flyer horse ride thing, which meant that the Russians were in the mall somewhere.”

“Steve, that’s insane.” Eddie grinned at him along with Robin as Steve blushed.

“I just remembered a song, Robin figured out what the code actually meant - it was linked to the supply company for a bunch of different stores in the Mall. So we decided to do a stake out and saw them go into this secret locked room at the loading bay. Erica got involved at this point, because we needed a way in and the only way was through the air ducts. We got into the room on the 3rd, but the door locked behind us and suddenly we were falling, because the room was also an elevator. I have no idea how long we were stuck in there before we were able to sneak out behind the Russians who came to collect crates from the elevator. After walking for miles, we found the central hub and, unfortunately, the gate the Russians were opening. They built a machine to open a gate to the Upside Down under the mall, and Dustin and I started to panic at that point. We also set off the alarms so we had to try to run, and got cornered so Rob and I told the kids to go and we.... got captured.”

“You-... you were captured by Russians???” Steve sighed, Robin coming over to sit on his other side and hold onto his calf.

“Yeah, I knew by that point that Robin talked when she was nervous, so I started yelling so they would focus on me and it worked.”

“Sure, it worked, but it got you tortured, Dingus.” Robin squeezed his leg gently, a reminder for both of them that they were okay.

“I’m sorry, tortured? Did you just say tortured?”

“Yes, I did. I don't know what they did to him, he won't tell me, but I heard the screaming and I saw him when he was dragged in. I didn’t think he was breathing at first.” The hand Eddie had on the back of Steve’s neck squeezed a little, pulling him a little closer.

“That’s what happened to your face?”

“Yeah, they came back once I came to - they had tied Robin and I back to back in chairs - for some more interrogation, but when that didn't work, they came back with some blue shit in a needle and they injected us both-”

“Getting drugged at a club-”

“Yep... I don't know what it was, but it was strong. They came back once it had kicked in, and just before they ripped out one of my fingernails, Dustin and Erica burst in with stun batons and they helped us get out. I remember bits and pieces of the next hour or so. I remember watching Back to Future for a little, then running out to drink water, and then we were puking in the men’s bathroom.”

“Jesus christ, Steve. No wonder you were so nervous that day.”

“Things got pretty fast after that. We narrowly escaped being captured by the Russians again, everyone else showed up and the Mind Flayer showed up not long after that. I drove Erica and Dustin up to his radio, then I hit Billy Hargrove’s car with my car - didn’t know he was possessed at that point, by the way, just saw him driving at everyone with Nancy shooting at him.”

“Of course you did, that’s incredible.”

“We started leading the Mind Flayer away from the mall, Hopper, Joyce and their friend Murray, I think that’s his name, had gone down into the base to close to gate. But halfway through our drive, the Mind Flayer turned around and we had to go back. Thank god for Lucas, he had grabbed a ton of fireworks earlier in the night, so we had those to use as weapons. I don't remember all the details but Billy ended up letting the Mind Flayer kill him to protect El, and then the gate closed and it collapsed. At the end of the night, Hopper was dead and so was Billy. I also discovered an interesting development in the parking lot, that no one can get mad at me for not sharing-”

“When you say that, it makes me feel like I'm definitely going to be mad at you,” Robin glared at Steve as she spoke.

“So, I may or may not have realized that I couldn’t fully hear out of my left ear anymore.”

“And you didn't say anything, WHY?”

“It felt like we had more important things to deal with.” Steve looked away from Robin, who was still glaring at him and saw Eddie looking like all the pieces of a puzzle had suddenly been put together.

“That actually explains so much, like how-”

“Please, do not finish that sentence, I know where it is going and I am begging you, there are children present.” Eddie just grinned.

“Fine. Is that... is that everything? Crazy alternate dimension with man-eating monsters, a little girl with super powers-”

“Actually, she doesn’t have powers anymore. We don't know what happened but she had been attacked by the Mind Flayer before we got to the mall and it did something to her powers,” Max added, the only one who hadn’t been in the Russian base in the boat house.

“Okay, so no more girl with super powers, but still a hell dimension with man-eating monsters? And my boyfriend being tortured by Russians?”

“Yeah, I guess that’s everything.”

“Well shit, at least I’m not crazy. Looks like we have to figure out what’s causing this stuff this time though. If it helps you guys at all, Chrissy did say she felt like she had been going crazy, and I think she was seeing things.”

“That sounds like a curse, like-” Dustin and Eddie make eye contact.

“Vecna’s curse.”

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Next part is already written so I should get that out in a few days, if you want to get added to the taglist let me know!

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#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #Different Meeting AU #this part was long but I am just in love with Eddie and Steve holding each other #Also??? Eddie pressing his forehead against Steve??? yes please which is why I wrote it lmao

[roominthecastle]

Asta & Harry + hugs

#resident alien #resident alien spoilers #harry x asta #sara tomko #alan tudyk #mine #keep your friends close but your alien much much closer #pressed tightly against you #that last one deserves its own set tbh #the way she *snuggles* and the way he basically starts purring #sigh #[phil dunphy voice *YOU LOVE EACH OTHER*]

[mmelolabelle]

I love and adore Alicent Hightower but baby, “My son has lost an eye…Over an insult? 🥺🥺”

sweetie you have been trying to leverage one of your culture’s greatest, most shameful taboos with anyone who will listen to get your ex crush/bff and her (v likely illegitimate tbf) sons disinherited for nearly ten years??

Now all of a sudden questioning someone’s legitimacy is nbd? Just ‘an insult’? Really? You’ve just been in a silly goofy mood for ten years? Bit of harmless name-calling was it?

Obviously a kids’ fight should never have escalated to someone losing an eye, because the children had no business being party to whatever political nonsense/family drama was going on. But the boys coming to blows over this was fairly predictable, especially as they got older. Babe, you actively chose to alienate your sons from their nephews in that way when you live in a culture where duels to the literal death over offended honour is a thing??? Where trial-by-combat is a 100% legit legal tactic?

Driftmark witnessed some truly audacious attempts at gaslighting that night but ALICENT REALLY

tl;dr Alicent lit the fuse on the Hightower v Velaryon/Strong kids conflict, she just didn’t intend for that particular bomb to go off so soon, or think that it would blow up in her son’s faces (much less that uh…literally)

#like is aemond losing an eye entirely alicent’s fault? no. #but as a queen and as a mother she played a large part in creating and enabling the negative environment that all those kids #grew up and learned how to interact with each other in #then goes all surprised pikachu when the result harms her own kids #goes along with the bigger trend of the greens starting conflicts without thinking through the implications #otto v daemon on dragonstone #alicent positioning her kids to go against rhaenyra’s #being the ones to press ‘go’ on a dynastic civil war that could (and did) wipe out their entire faction #aemond going after luke forever nuking his own reputation and damaging his family’s in the process #GUYS #THINK #alicent hightower #aemond targaryen #lucerys velaryon #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon

[noodleblade]

For the headcanon ask, would you do KOBD + music? Love your writing!

<33333 you are sweet ;---; thank you!!!

Knock Out loves human music. As soon as he got his own radio synced with the local stations, he was quick to collect and form his own playlist of what I can only describe as the Top Twenty Hits of 2012. Once he figured out the internet, he quickly dived into the 70s-80s and hasn't returned.

Breakdown....doesn't get it. But he likes how enthusiast Knock Out is about it and likes to listen to the playlists Knock Out makes. Occasionally, songs will get stuck in Breakdown's head and he can be caught humming them around the Nemesis as he works.

They also 100% sync up their songs when they go out for drives so they can listen to the same thing even when they are miles apart on their own missions.

Knock Out also does this horrible thing where his driving gets 1000 percent more reckless the quickly the beat of the song is im not speaking from personal experience

Breakdown has attempted to make Knock Out a playlist. He got pretty frustrated with the process rather quickly because there are so many songs?? and so many bad ones?? and he doesn't know what to pick and when he DOES find a song that he likes and he thinks Knock Out will like, it doesn't go at all with the tone of the other songs so the playlist is kind of thematically all over the place.

Knock Out loves it all the same, but he does later rearrange the songs into different playlists that work better.

#kobd #knock out #breakdown #tfp #transformers #headcanons #anonymous #asks #also consider them swaying together in the medbay to soft music after patching each other up from a nasty run in the autobots #breakdown just hums the song so knock out not only hears it but feels it when pressed against him #its dark in the medbay except for the machine lights leaving the room soft and glowy and- #ahah #anyways thanks for the wait:3 i went out all day today